I'm Ready | |||||||||||||
Recording Artist: | Bryan Adams | ||||||||||||
Writers: | Jim Vallance Bryan Adams |
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Date Written: | October 1978 / Vancouver Canada | ||||||||||||
Albums: | Cuts
Like A Knife (A&M Records, 1983) Bryan Adams Unplugged (A&M Records, 1997) The Best Of Me (A&M Records, 1999) Bare Bones (2010) |
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Charts: | #26 -
Billboard Top Tracks Chart / 1983 (9 weeks on the chart) #20 - UK Chart / March 1998 (2 weeks on the chart) #32 - The Record (Canada) / 1998 #26 - Netherlands / 1998 |
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Awards: | 1984 -
Juno Award Nomination (Canada) - Single of the Year 2007 - SOCAN Classics Award for more than 100,000 radio performances in Canada |
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Audio 1: | |||||||||||||
Rock version - from the album "Cuts Like A Knife" (1983) | |||||||||||||
Bryan Adams: rhythm guitar, vocal Keith Scott: rhythm guitar, lead guitar Tommy Mandel: organ, synthesizer Dave Taylor: bass Mickey Curry: drums Backing vocals: Bryan Adams, Lou Gramm |
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Produced by Bob Clearmountain and Bryan Adams. Recorded by Bob Clearmountain, September 1982, at Little Mountain Sound (Vancouver) and the Power Station (New York). Mixed by Bob Clearmountain. |
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Audio 2: | |||||||||||||
Unplugged version - from the album "Bryan Adams Unplugged" (1997) | |||||||||||||
Bryan Adams: acoustic guitar, vocal Keith Scott: acoustic guitar Patrick Leonard: piano Tommy Mandel: keyboards Davy Spillane: Irish whistle Dave Taylor: bass Mickey Curry: drums Danny Cummings: percussion Strings: Julliard School String Ensemble, arranged and conducted by Michael Kamen |
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Produced and arranged by Patrick Leonard and Bryan Adams. Recorded by Bob Clearmountain and Dave Hewitt, September 26, 1997, Hammersmith Ballroom, New York, on Remote Recording Services. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain at Warehouse Studios, Vancouver. |
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Audio 3: | |||||||||||||
Unplugged version - from the album "Bryan Adams / Bare Bones" (2010) | |||||||||||||
Bryan Adams: acoustic guitar, vocal Gary Breit: piano |
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Produced by Bryan Adams. Recorded by Ben Dobie at the Anderson Center for the Performing Arts in Binghamton, New York, June 14, 2010. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain at Mix This, Los Angeles California. |
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Cover Versions: | Also recorded by Ian Lloyd | ||||||||||||
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Bryan finally got around to recording "I'm Ready" for his third album "Cuts Like A Knife" in 1983. I love the energy of that 1983 recording -- producer Bob Clearmountain captured a great Rock-and-Roll performance in the studio -- but I've always considered "I'm Ready" to be an unremarkable song with a half-baked lyric. In fact, Adams and I used to joke about the lyric's shallowness ... One time, about 1985, Bryan was a guest on a radio talk-show in Vancouver, and fans were phoning in with questions. I called the station. Disguising my voice (quite well, I thought) I asked Bryan: "What do the lyrics to 'I'm Ready' mean?". Bryan started to laugh and said, "Is that you, Vallance?" |
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Bryan hired Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard to arrange and produce the MTV session, and I think he did a fabulous job! At their first meeting, Patrick asked to hear every song Bryan had ever written. When they got to "I'm Ready", Patrick heard something that Bryan and I had previously missed. Patrick re-shaped our up-tempo rock track into a beautiful ballad. In fact, it's now one of my favourite songs from the years I spent with Bryan. In 2001 Bryan recorded an Italian version of "I'm Ready" -- "Io Vivo In Te" -- with a new lyric by the Italian recording artist Zucchero. |
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Lyrics: | I'd like
to see you, thought I'd let you know I wanna be with you every day Cuz I've got a feelin' that's beginning to grow And there's only one thing I wanna say I'm ready - to love you I'm ready - to hold you I'm ready - I'm ready Ready as I'm gonna be She left me a long note when she left me here Told me that love was hard to find But baby it's easy and I'll make it clear That there's only one thing on my mind I'm ready - to love you I'm ready - to hold you I'm ready - I'm ready Ready as I'm gonna be |
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